The Nation: Out in a Rowboat with Mayor Lindsay

NEARLY all of America's big cities share the malady: while the cost of
services steadily mounts, the tax base that provides for those services
just as surely shrinks. In this year of recession, funds are shorter
than ever, leading desperate mayors to seek relief in Washington, in
state capitols and in an array of burdensome new taxes that the public
can scarcely support. Yet, aggravated as they are, the problems of all
other American mayors absolutely pale beside those of John Lindsay, the
embattled mayor of New York City.